Looking back to a few months ago, it is really telling why Converge chose to cover Entombed's "Wolverine Blues". Basically outside of a couple of songs like "Aimless Arrow" and the title track, All We Love We Leave Behind is Converge's tribute to sludgy, Discharge-influenced early 90's Swedish metal. With Kurt Ballou building walls of riffs instead of portraits of noise this time around, it gives drummer Ben Koller the chance to take center stage and power the album with his kit. All in all, it is an impressive offering from arguably the most consistent band in the hardcore scene. While it isn't necessarily their best, it certainly is a beast of a record.

Legitimately awesome...like we expected anything less. The one, two punch of 'Sadness Comes Home' and 'Empty On The Inside' is phenomenal and 'Coral Blue' might just be one of their best tracks to date. Not to mention the title-track. Excellent album.

Better than Jane Doe. You heard me right. This is every bit as passionate and is also more diverse. All We Love We Leave Behind will never get the recognition that Jane Doe currently does, and I'm okay with that. It just makes this record and what it means to me even more personal.

okay bros, these guys weren't intending on making "jane doe" part 2 or "axe to fall, again". it's just an album of PURE LIFTYNESS. its fuckin lifty brahs. it makes me wanna fuckin FUCK AND lift. makes me wanna throw a dumbbell at some idiot 20 feet away from me who's working out all wrong and shit. godamn, this album pumps me up more than any other converge album. i rate my albums on how lifty they are and if it gives me enough passion to lift and strut my shit like a rooster. not how fuckin TRVE they remain to the scene, i could care less about that. FUCK this album is raging

A faster You Fail Me? An Axe To Fall with more sneering punk tendencies? This album is
both of those things and so much more. Perhaps it will still take some more time to connect as emotionally
with the material here as with the quintessential Converge album Jane Doe (simply because there is
just an incredible amount of music to parse through here!), but All We Love We Leave Behind stands
as one of the band's best, most deranged, and ferocious records.

Still the hardest band in modern hardcore punk music, All We Love We Leave Behind
mostly shows that Converge are just as consistent in quality as they are in their sound.
This album doesn't fail to deliver the audio pummeling fans expect to be served, but tweaks
the formula slightly with stylistic variations such as instances of melodic post-hardcore
vocals this time around to avoid wearing their sound thin. All We Love We Leave
Behind isn't as heavily ambitious and out of the band's comfort zone as their previous
outing Axe to Fall, and the sound it does present isn't still at the ground-breaking
status that it once was, but the album is still as effective as the band's best work for all
of the same reasons every prior Converge album is as effective as it is, and fans will love
it for every reason they love Converge's typical psychotic assault of gritty, thrashing, and
calculated heaviness, and it doesn't come close to disappointing in that regard.

Converge defecates a spectacular release in All We Love We Leave Behind, an album which finds the bandmates slowing down not one iota. It's nowhere near as memorable as You Fail Me or fantastic like Jane Doe, but the band's eighth full-length comes pretty damn close to topping those two offerings. With Jacob Bannon's vocals merely improving with age and Kurt Ballou shredding like there's no tomorrow, Converge has definitely made it this far!

Typical affair coming from Converge --- Same brutal, increasingly sludgy riffs, same concrete pounding rhythms, same vocals that sound like a really pissed off wolf man. Fans of Converge (like me) who simply wanted more of what they knew and loved will be satisfied -- Anyone else who did not enjoy the formula in any way already has absolutely nothing in here that will change their minds. Converge is Converge -- Love 'em or hate 'em

Converge have always been emotional, heavy and mathematic musicians. "All We Love We Leave Behind" is yet another great exemple of that, and a massively fantastic addiction to Converge's discography. Unlike many albums, this one doesn't show signs of filler or unecessary tracks. This doesn't bore me. It's seventeen skull-crushing songs that make time fly away so fast that when it ends I just want to listen to it all over again.

Downloaded this knowing it wasn't my cup of tea. Surprisingly it wasn't as bad as I thought. This is a brutal album, and hard to sit through in one listen, but it is clear these guys are talented. Most of the songs were not my style, but a couple I enjoyed. "All We Love We Leave Behind", "Aimless Arrow", "Tresspass" and a few others are pretty good. Still not my favorite type of music.

Hoooly Shiit, On All We Love We Leave Behind Converge proves once again that they are one of the best bands in all of Metal by upping the fury and chaos a solid two rungs. Throughout the whole album the main theme Converge is trying to convey is loss and the sadness and then absolute anger that comes with it. This is done insanely well as track by murky desolate track rushes by at break neck speed while at the same time carrying enough wait to knock some teeth out. While not as iconic as Jane Doe or the just as off the wall Axe to Fall All We Love We Leave Behind still stands as a testament to the raw chaos incarnate that is Converge. Best Songs:Coral Blue,Trespasses, and the Title Track.

Fast, technical, relentless with a tinge of sludge. Converge's latest effort is powerful and shows that with how much music they've made, they are still able to improve consistently. Fast riffing complete with bullet speed drums abound, not a single song on this album is lackluster, and it is one of the most consistently entertaining albums in the band's discography.

first impression, "......F**K." Such an amazing release. It's not Jane Doe 2, but it's the f**king closest thing you can imagine. Absolutely fantastic in every way that Converge can make it and holy crap Kurt Ballou can you freakin shred! 4.6/5

This album was much more appraochable than anything else the band has done. For once, not only did I sense the displayed depth, I became immersed in it. The title track slays hard and lives up to its namesake.

Was waiting for converge to make this kind of album, It may not have the darkness of you fail me, the acessibility and fun of axe to fall or even the hit or miss jane doe syndrome but of all converge albums this is the sludgiest and by far the sexiest they've released so far for me